"The most dangerous thing in AI is concentration. When intelligence is owned by three companies and two governments, coordination becomes control. Open-source AI is not a product strategy. It is a coordination infrastructure for the rest of humanity."
Founded Stability AI and open-sourced Stable Diffusion, triggering a wave of generative AI tools available to anyone with a laptop. His stated goal was to prevent AI capability from concentrating in the hands of a few institutions — to build a coordination layer for AI development that no single actor could capture or shut down.